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McAfee Feeding Volunteers Spam For A Month
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-03-31
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Fifty global volunteers armed with clean laptops and new email addresses will spend 30 days exploring the Internet while unprotected from its threats.
A little promo whipped up by security vendor McAfee pushes 50 volunteers into the wilds of the Web without protection. As part of the experiment, the volunteers are supposed to blog each day about their Internet experiences.
The S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment compares to the Morgan Spurlock documentary about fast food, 'Super Size Me'. Except these participants will digest spam rather than Big Macs.
McAfee said five volunteers each from ten countries will take part in the Experiment. They will be encouraged to surf, purchase, and email from their virgin devices, which will be running Windows XP (no Vista? awww).
If they are opening attachments and visiting links from spam, those machines should be infected and compromised in short order. We've asked McAfee to clarify if the default XP firewall will be enabled or not on these laptops, as that could make a difference in these machines getting compromised by a worm before seeing a single spam arrive.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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